 | Into the Free: A Novel
Publication Date: February 1, 2012Just a girl. The only one strong enough to break the cycle.In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a "nothing mama," she struggles to find a place where she really belongs.For answers, Millie turns to the Gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her family's longstanding cycle o...
 |  | The Wager
Publication Date: February 16, 2012What is it that drives a man from the light and into the dark? What force has the ability to take a man from sound of mind to muddled and confused in less than a year’s time? Nick Hines wishes he knew, because he has just completed the trip from husband and family man to convicted wife killer, child killer, and a suspect in the investigation into the accidents that took his own two children’s lives. In less time than it takes to wean a puppy, Nick has gone from sane to crazy, unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. In less time than it tak...
|  | Bless the Day: Prayers and Poems to Nurture Your Soul
Publication Date: October 30, 1998Whether quiet and introspective or heartfelt and celebratory, blessings are a way for us to greet each new day with thanks and hope. In Bless the Day, June Cotner shares with us a treasury of poems and prayers that touch the heart and nurture the spirit.Arranged by theme, the pieces in this collection focus on hope, courage, and love as thoughtfully as they do on inspiration, faith, and strength. The blessings here are meant to be shared with family and friends at life's great events, offering comforting words for the bereaved, encouraging words for graduate...
|  | The Murderess and the Hangman: A Novel of Criminal Minds
Publication Date: March 14, 2012[US Hardcover]On October 22, 2010, a human skull was found in Sir David Attenborough's garden in south London...a middle-aged female skull. How did it get there? Where was the rest of the body?The Murderess and the Hangman is a story of this murder, told from both sides of the scaffold. In 1879 William Marwood, 'gentleman hangman' for London and Middlesex, hanged 'callous murderess' Kate Webster. Her crime? The axe-murder of her landlady, Mrs. Julia Thomas, in the leafy suburb of Richmond, London.With incredible guile, Kate Webster began physically imper...
|  | The Unicorn Hunt: The Fifth Book of the House of Niccolo
Release Date: June 1, 1999With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series.The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe.Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Mod...
|  | A Few Quick Ones
Publication Date: May 2004In 'A Few Quick Ones', P.G. Wodehouse brings together some of his oldest friends for a party. Jeeves and Wooster are there, so is Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member. ...
|  | Frayn Plays: 2: Balmoral , Benefactors , Wild Honey (Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 2)
Publication Date: January 27, 1992| Series: Contemporary Dramatists "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times)Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic work circumscribes the disillusionment of an era" (New York Times); Balmoral dares to imagine what Britain would be like if it had gone through the Russian revolution in 1917; "a sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement" (New Statesman); Wild Honey is a reworking of Checkov's first play (also known as Platonov) and is shot through with fa...
|  | Vinaver Plays: 1: Overboard; Situation Vacant; Dissident, Goes Without Saying; Nina, That's Something Else; A Smile on (Methuen Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 1)
Publication Date: October 16, 1997| ISBN-10: 0413717801 | ISBN-13: 978-0413717801The first collection of plays by one of France's most prominent playwrightsOverboard: "Combines Shakespearian tragedy, Aristophanic farce and a Chekhovian drama of lives consumed and memories that fade." Le Progrès, Situation Vacant: "The play builds to a climax which powerfully captures a mind under siege, bombarded by a cacophony of voices and tormented by guilt." (Independent); Dissident, Goes Without Saying and Nina, That's Something Else: "These two plays bring to a summit the art of suggestions...
| | I am Not Prince Hamlet: Shakespeare, Criticism and Schools of English
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|  | Roman de La Rose (Folio (Domaine Public)) (French Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 1984| Series: Folio (Domaine Public) (Book 1518) This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitm...
|  | Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller: Seventeenth-Century Praise and Restoration Satire
Publication Date: January 18, 1991In 1660, Edmund Waller was an eminent poet whose claims to fame rivaled those of even his most illustrious predecessors, while Andrew Marvell had scarcely any reputation at all. Today, however, that situation is completely reversed. A.B. Chambers's study shows that Waller has been unjustly neglected in recent times and that, together, some of the work of Waller and Marvell bridged the gap between the work of the early seventeenth century and the Restoration. Chambers suggests that Waller and Marvell are mutually illuminating, that their poems have substantia...
|  | The Oracle of Tears
Publication Date: November 1, 2010Poet Mbuh Tennu Mbuh is a lecturer in the English Department, University of YaoundÈ I. A pioneer member of the Anglophone Cameroon Writers Association (ACWA) and a Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar, Tennu holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham. He is author of a novel, In the Shadow of My Country. ...
| | The dance of Sabra
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| | Ai di gan lan: Taiwan ai qing shi shang du (Tai Gang ji hai wai Hua wen wen xue ming zuo jia gou shang du cong shu) (Mandarin Chinese Edition)
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| | Tu Mu (803-852), his life and poetry (Asian library series)
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|  | Reading the Decades: Fifty Years of British History Through the Nation's Bestsellers
Publication Date: April 1, 2002From literary classic to cookery books, blockbuster airport novels to self-help manuals, this work is a portrait of Britain through the books that have inspired, excited, and forced us to part with our cash, from the 1950s to the present day. ...
|  | Drama and the Postmodern: Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre
Publication Date: November 18, 2008| ISBN-10: 1604975423 | ISBN-13: 978-1604975420This collection of essays is impressive in its breadth, ranging over English (Shakespeare, Stoppard, Churchill, Ravenhill, Penhall), Irish (MacNamara, Johnston), American (O’Neill, Stein, Kushner, Lynn), and Continental (Beckett, Weiss, Jelinek) dramatists; furthermore, many of the plays given extended treatment––King Lear, The Emperor Jones, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Investigation, Top Girls, and Angels in America––are frequent...
| | Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels.
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|  | The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
Publication Date: November 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0754661989 | ISBN-13: 978-0754661986Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas' anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance writers by examining them in light of African American vernacular culture and early twentieth-century discourses of anthropology, cultural nationalism and international modernism. At the same time, attention to the...
|  | Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry?: All About Deserts (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)
Release Date: January 11, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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